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The axe the narrator uses to attempt to kill the cat in a rage after being tripped by it while going down the basement stairs of his old house. He is stopped by his wife and ultimately ends up putting the blade into her head.

This was the book that told the stories of all the art in the room at the chateau. The book tells the fateful story of the oval portrait, where a husband incessantly strives for the perfect portrait of his wife which eventually takes her life..

The odd angel that appears after the narrator has drank a few too many spirits, and eventually turns the narrator's life upside down after he disregards the angel.

The raven is a black bird that sits on a bust of Pallas above a door. The bird repeats the word "Nevermore" in response to the questions of the resident of the house he is sitting in.

The significance of the raven is that it is often known as a…

This is a drawing or model of the balloon that used to carry eight men across the Atlantic Ocean. The story The Balloon Hoax actually appeared in the New York Sun, and was about the fictitious first transatlantic voyage, which people that read it…